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Minnesota, United States

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Sleepy Eye is a city in Brown County, Minnesota, United States. Sleepy Eye is named after Chief Sleepy Eye, or Ishtakhaba, who was known as a compassionate person with droopy eyelids (or maybe just one), hence his name. According to the United States Census Bureau, the city has a total area of 2.0 square miles (5.2 square kilometer), of which, 1.7 square miles (4.4 square kilometer) of it is land and 0.3 square miles (0.78 square kilometer) of it (14.29%) is water.